Re: sata_mv problems on Marvell MV88SX5081

[Roger Heflin <rheflin@atipa.com>]

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Mark Lord wrote:
> 
>>> Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 122126336
>> Scroll WAY BACK in the log, and find the error messages which preceeded
>> the first occurance of that one.  (with a bad sector, it is very likely
>> you will see a zillion "Buffer I/O errors", as the SCSI mid-layer is not
>> at all nice about how it handles them).
> 
> Actually the "Buffer I/O error" is the very first error message I am 
> receiving, a few minutes after the driver is initialized and there is some 
> disk activity happening.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Jiri,

Make sure that you delete the arrays in the highpoint bios before
trying to use the open source driver.

I have seen alot of really funny things on several of the different
hw/sw raid controllers (not just highpoint's) if you attempt to use
a disk that someone has already tagged as raid disks, even on the
same controller it gets interesting if you attempt to use them
non-raid.

I would be interested in knowing if the open source driver can successfully
driver those boards.

                           Roger